Thirteen Ghosts Page #9

Kathy opens the locked bathroom door... and Arthur'sstanding there, pissed. He yanks her out of the

bathroom, into the hall.

ARTHUR:

What the hell're you doin' up

here? Didn't I tell you to stay

downstairs?

KATHY:

Yeah, but -

ARTHUR:

Where's your brother?

KATHY:

With Maggie...

MAGGIE (O.S.)

He was with me.

They turn to see Maggie walking up to them.

MAGGIE:

But he scooted off. He's around

here somewhere.

ARTHUR:

You're supposed to watch him,

that's what I pay you for!

MAGGIE:

(starts yelling)

Bobby!

44A INT. STAIRCASE 44A

Arthur's heading downstairs with Kathy and Maggie.

ARTHUR:

I'll find him. But I want you

both out of here...

(CONTINUED)

THIRTEEN GHOSTS -Rev. 10/27/00 45.

44A CONTINUED:
44A

KATHY:

But -

ARTHUR:

No buts. I want you guys to waitin the car, I'll be out as soon as

I find Bobby.

KATHY:

Why are you freaking out?

ARTHUR:

Kathy, just this once, don't argue.

45 INT. MAIN LEVEL 45

They reach the bottom of the stairs, and head over to thefront door. But there's now a glass barrier in front ofit, barring anyone from exit.

KATHY:

What happened to the door?

ARTHUR:

Son of a b*tch.

Arthur picks up a chair and hurls it at the glass. It

bounces off without a dent. He picks it up and starts

banging away. Nothing. Over the top of the noise a voice

bellows out.

ARTHUR:

What a night I'm having!

RAFKIN (O.S.)

It's sealed shut.

They all turn to see Rafkin sitting on the couch.

ARTHUR:

What do you mean it's sealed shut?

RAFKIN:

I mean, it's sealed shut. What partof that code are you havingtrouble cracking?

KATHY:

There must be another way out.

RAFKIN:

I've looked.

(CONTINUED)

THIRTEEN GHOSTS -Rev. 10/27/00 46.

45 CONTINUED:
45

ARTHUR:

Well, we're gonna look again...

right after we find my son. Now

get up...

RAFKIN:

Thanks, but I'll wait here.

ARTHUR:

Look, I don't know what the hell's

going on and I don't know who the

hell you are... but my son's

missing. So until those questions

are answered, you're not leaving

my sight. Now get up.

Rafkin is startled by Arthur's tone. He reluctantly gets

up to help.

RAFKIN:

Oh. Now you listen to me. Before

it was the lawyer...

(beat, realizing)

... speaking of lawyers. He split?

CUT TO:

46 INT. CLOCKWORK ROOM 46

The gears kick in once again, and the house comes tolife. It's a quick shift. But we notice that the gearsare moving at an accelerated rate.

CUT TO:

46A INT. BASEMENT 46A

Two more doors open within the basement.

CUT TO:

INT. CLOCKWORK ROOM

At the base of the clockworks, two more needles from the

13 meters go out. Three ghosts are now loose...

CUT TO:

THIRTEEN GHOSTS -Rev. 10/27/00 46A.

47 INT. BASEMENT -WITH BOBBY 47

Bobby is zipping down the hallway on his scooter. He

takes the corners at high speed, following the spellmarkings on the floor.

BOBBY:

Kathy! Come on.

As he rounds the next turn too fast, his scooter shoots

out from under him, his glasses sail off his head...

BOBBY:

Aahh!

... and he lands on his ass.

(CONTINUED)

47.

47 CONTINUED:
47

Bobby grabs his glasses again, and when he slips them

on!-

THROUGH GHOST GLASSES

He sees a decapitated head lying on the floor rightbetween his legs, wrapped in plastic. The head's eyessnap open, and it begins to mouth words.

Bobby screams... then he hears a DRAGGING sound behindhim, like dead skin slapping on glass.

Bobby turns and sees a headless, legless human torso,

wrapped in sheets of filthy plastic, crab-walking towardshim...

BOBBY:

Daaddd!!!!

Bobby jumps to his feet, turning. He runs down the hall.

Looks back, sees nothing, then when he turns back,

straight into the bound woman.

Pinned against the glass, the bound woman lets out amuffled cry.

Strangled by a businessman's tie, which is still cinchedtight around her neck, her tongue sticks out like a thickblue thumb. Her hair, skin, and prom dress are clottedwith dirt and worms --the marks of a shallow grave. Her

hands and feet are bound by rope, but that's not the

worst. Her head sits askew on her shoulders, neck

obviously broken, a chunk of bone jutting out justbeneath the skin.

Panicked, she goes into violent convulsions.

It's too much for Bobby. He turns and bolts, racingblindly through the basement's glass hallways. When

finally he feels safe, he slows enough to look over hisshoulder, and that's when he slams into a wall of glass.

The collision knocks his glasses from his head, his mikefrom his shoulder. He reaches for his glasses when thetiny sound of a SQUEAKING WHEEL issues FROM his MIKEdown the hall.

Bobby looks at the mike, then fearfully back at theglasses in his hands. Ushering all his courage, Bobbydons the glasses, and with his heart beating like ahummingbird's, he turns around, and sees...

(CONTINUED)

48.

47 CONTINUED:
(2) 47

Another WOMAN there, walking down the corridor towardshim. Dressed in only a hospital gown, she wheels aportable IV stand along the floor. Yards of thin plastic

IV tubes tether her to the stand. Her arms, thin,

withered from long illness, bear nasty scars fromunnumbered operations. Her head is almost completelycovered in stained bandages, but a beauty mark decoratesthat portion of her face we can see.

She gropes blindly down the passage, straight towardsBobby.

He backs up, trips over his feet, almost falls.

The IV Woman stops. So does Bobby.

Bobby waits, frozen. He tries to call for help, but can

only manage a gasp.

BOBBY:

D-Dad... Daddy...

(louder)

Dad! Dad!

The IV Woman seems to respond to the sound of his voice.

She c*cks her head, as if listening. She moves, callingout, but we hear it THROUGH the tiny amplifier of Bobby'sTOY MIKE.

JEAN (V.O.)

(on mike)

B-bb-bobby?

And now he recognizes her voice --it's his mother, Jean.

That's it. Bobby turns and runs like hell. Around the

corner, and right into -

Cyrus. Or Cyrus's ghost. Pale white, with eyes rolledback, and a big spike sticking out of his neck. Standing

behind a pane of glass. Bobby actually hit glass, and hecatches a glimpse of the dead Cyrus just before he'sknocked out from the impact.

As his glasses and microphone fall to the floor, we...

CUT TO:

48 INT. MAIN FLOOR -CORRIDOR 48

Arthur, Kathy, Maggie and Rafkin are searching the house,

looking for Bobby.

(CONTINUED)

THIRTEEN GHOSTS -Rev. 10/27/00 49.

48 CONTINUED:
48

MAGGIE:

Bobby!!

ARTHUR:

Come on out, pal!

KATHY:

Robert!! Stop screwing around!

RAFKIN:

Hey, Glass Family Robinson!

You're wasting your breath!

This stuff -

(taps glass)

This is Ectobar Glass, Cyrus inventedit. It's shatterproof and soundproof.

So your kid might have a hard timehearing you.

Maggie touches the etchings on the glass.

MAGGIE:

What are these?

RAFKIN:

They're containment spells.

Ectoplasmic entities can'tcross them. The supernatural haslaws to obey just like we do. In

the case of ghosts, it's spells.

Written, spoken, it doesn't matter.

They have to obey what the spellstell them.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes